Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actual advice, however, can be refreshingly blunt. Bill, 34, tells her that he has just quit a good job on impulse. Eager for disapproval, he asks Grant: "When will I grow up?" "Well," chuckles the psychologist, "that's a good question for all of us." She calls the hapless Bill immature and masochistic for quitting before lining up another job. "Never throw out the dirty water until you have clean water," she says. Grant is just as tough on Donna, 26, who complains that her husband goes to topless bars. Grant explains that men derive natural pleasure from visual...
...LAWYER stood up on the steps of the theater. The theater was dark, silent, the show was running. The picketeers listened to his rising voice--trembling with indignation at times--pointing, pounding, and they looked up at him and listened, eager for him to stop, eager to respond. He was talking about freedom...
Movie sequels never seem to measure up either to the original or to the memories of our enjoyment. The Empire Strikes Back, the second "chapter" in Lucas' saga, was awaited with trepidation. Again Clarke sneaked an early look-and once more came away eager to write a major story. Says Clarke: "This is no ordinary sequel. Lucas and his company have used their Star Wars profits to make a film far more sophisticated in its technical effects. Lucas' imagination is as bountiful as ever, and he seems to have taken up where Disney left off. There are disappointments...
...them had recently voted to breach the budget to provide more funds for veterans' benefits and disability insurance. Oozing sarcasm, Muskie said, "It is encouraging to see that so many of these Senators who refused to pay the price for fiscal discipline just one month ago are now eager to make public demands to end such profligacy." Says Oklahoma Senator Henry Bellmon, ranking Republican on the Budget Committee: "He's an enormously able person, a pragmatist without many ideological hang...
Mehta and the church originally planned to make admission to the event free. But hoped-for corporate contributions were not forthcoming. Extra money had to be raised, and the church was forced to charge from $5 to $25 for tickets. Despite the financial obstacles, Mehta is eager to go into other neighborhoods, especially in the city's large Puerto Rican community. "One thing we know," he says. "We are going back to Harlem next year, that's for sure." As one enthusiast shouted from the Abyssinian balcony after the Hallelujah Chorus...